Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Equinox Valley Lilac is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

Ornamental Qualities

Equinox Valley Lilac features showy panicles of fragrant lavender flowers rising above the foliage in mid spring that fade to silver over time | which emerge from distinctive plum purple flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage. The heart-shaped leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Equinox Valley Lilac will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 10 feet. It tends to be a little leggy | with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground | and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations | and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level dry to moist

Mature Size 15'Hx10'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are lavender with strong fragrance

Flowers in mid spring

Attracts bees; butterflies

Zone 3a

Likes average to moist soil